IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A handmade, wooden crank toy in the ...

With its wooden hoop covered by animal skin, its fretless neck and gut strings, the minstrel banjo has a mellow, intimate sound, more like a lute or an Arabic oud than the bright, steel-stringed ...

Beyoncé made history this week as the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart with her new single, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which featured instrumentals from an award-winning musician ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh!

If there's any instrument in the quiver of American music that can simultaneously summon heartbreak, salvation and joy, it just might be the banjo. It's a simple mechanism of hoop, animal skin, neck ...

Rhiannon Giddens, a folk artist from a three-member band based out of Boone, North Carolina, just won the seventh annual Steve Martin Prize for banjo music. Giddens' musical journey began in Ohio with ...

Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens plays the banjo and viola on Beyoncé’s new song, “Texas Hold ’Em.” The Greensboro, NC, native is considered an icon in folk music and has ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. – With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play "Oh! Susannah ...